Cinemas

What an amazing setting to what a movie! St Georges Hall continues it’s commitment to LGBTQ audiences after having lit up the building in rainbow colours for Liverpool Pride 2015 with the image reaching over 250,000 people on Facebook.

Screenings are held in the Concert Hall which is reached by the North Entrance (opposite Walker Art Gallery).

A brilliant new 56 seater venue in the heart of Liverpool – built by volunteers in the shell of the old Magistrates Court on Victoria Street, the cinema is run entirely by Volunteers. The programme is progressive and eclectic – anyone can submit programme ideas and the volunteers will select those that fit the cinema’s ethos. LGBT friendly from it’s outset, this cinema is right on the edge of Liverpool’s vibrant Stanley Street Quarter, Liverpool’s “gay village”.

The Black-E (formerly The Blackie) – a combination of a contemporary arts centre with a community centre – was launched in 1968 as the U.K.’s first community arts project. The commitments made then remain the commitments today – to young people (offering, in the words of The Last Poets, “affection, protection, direction”) – to a cultural programme emphasising participation and involvement (“do-ing” as well as “viewing”) – to education (formal and informal) – and to quality of work with equality of provision.

FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) is the UK’s leading media arts centre, based in Liverpool. Offering a unique programme of exhibitions, film and participant-led art projects, FACT uses the power of creative technology to inspire and enrich lives.

The award-winning FACT building is home to three galleries (showing four exhibitions per year), a beautiful café and bar, and four state of the art film screens (including intimate sofa-seated The Box), programmed by Picturehouse@FACT and showing the best in independent and mainstream film.

The Plaza is an independent, volunteer-run cinema in Waterloo, Sefton., keeping cinema affordable for the local community.

Since reopening as a community cinema in 1997, the three-screen Plaza has promoted a range of commercial, limited release, foreign language and cult film. More importantly it has developed an innovative menu of community events designed to promote the social, educational and inspirational value of film. It is, as far as we are aware, one of the few charities in the UK to provide essential community facilities and encourage social inclusion through cinema.

The Plaza has a history of supporting LGBT film and hosted screenings for Liverpool Pride on 2013.